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Petition to Lord Dorchester for a salary to John Young, n.d.

Chapman's science notebook, with notes and drawings by Myrtle Goodfellow.

Fonds consists of contracts regarding post and mail operations in the County of Frontenac between Loughborough to Lake Opinicon on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's mails, complete with wax seals.

The fonds consists of correspondence between Hazel (Summers) Kompass and Professor Richard Plant (Queen's Drama Department) and speeches discussing the life and career of George Horatio Summers and the Summer Theatre at Burlington, Ontario.

Minutes of co-ordinating committee of Canadian Girls in Training, representing various churches.

The collection consists of material relating to Mary Macdonald, daughter of Sir John A. Macdonald, 1911-1988. Includes an autograph album, photograph of Mary Macdonald, issue of the Times containing the death of Lady Macdonald, September 7, 1920 and notes by Margaret Cohoe. Typescript of A Trilogy: I. Mary Macdonald. II. Sarah Hannah Coward (Mrs. Charles Clarke) and III. St. Aubyns, Hove. Also includes a photograph of Mary Macdonald (1929).

Contains articles by Professor Breck.

The "Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts" collection provides a wealth of source material on a range of major writers. John Forster owned the largest collection of Samuel Richardson manuscripts in existence. Forty-seven poems, including odes, sonnets, dramatic prologues and epilogues are included, along with the major archive of his correspondence. Eight-hundred and fifty letters are reproduced, many relating to his work on the major novels "Pamela," "Clarissa" and "Sir Charles Grandison." A vast collection of literary manuscripts, letters and papers of Jonathan Swift are also included in Part Two. Among them is Swift's private diary, that dates from 1727, many personal accounts, correspondence, verses, riddles, a problematic first edition of "Gulliver's Travels" with manuscript alterations that may be autograph and the Dublin Inquisition's Commission of Lunacy on Swift of 1742. Manuscripts of Samuel Johnson include the proof sheets of his "Lives of the English Poets," along with varied correspondence. Correspondence of major authors of the period include that of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Mrs. (Elizabeth) Inchbald, Robert Burns, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, Horace Walpole and David Hume. Some early letters of William Wordsworth date from 1797 and there is a large volume of verse by James Thomson.

Fonds consists of records organized into eleven series: personal papers, 1910-1975; Canadian Jewish Congress, 1914-1917; Jewish Colonization Association, 1891-1950; history, 1829-1968; articles, n.d., 1921-1966; research material and subject files, n.d., 1920-1975; demographic studies, 1851-1971; scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings, n.d., 1926-1966.